Device for applying wall-paper.



N0. 630,678. Patented Aug. 8, I899. A. W. FOSTER.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING WALL PAPER.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1899.)

(No Model.)

IN VENTOI? "m: clams rznzns 0a., Pucnoumo" WASHINGTON, a. c.

UNITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE. A

ALBION WV. FOSTER, OF MILLBRIDGE, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JASPERWYMAN,

OF SAME PLACE.

v DEVICE FOR APPLYING WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 61 0578, dated August8, 1899.

Application filed March 29, 1899. Serial No. 710,929. (No model.)

5 proved Device for Applying Wall-Paper, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to so combine a brush and a rOller'thatthey may be either to the ceiling or to the side wall of a room andwhereby the operator need use but one hand, may match the pattern withaccuracy, and may quickly fix the paper upon either a side Wall or aceiling without need of scaffolding and with less labor than heretofore.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indi- 5cate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved device, and Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same.

The brush A consists, as usual, of a back 10 and bristles 11. Thebristles are preferably arranged in a single row of bunches extendingfrom end to end of the back, near the forward or outer longitudinal edgeof said back, asshown in Fig. 1; but two or more rows of bunches ofbristles may be employed, it being necessary only that the bunches ofbristles should be just thick enough to give them the desired spring andhave sufficient bearing on the paper to force it gently, yet firmly, inposition upon the intended support.

A bracket 12 is secured upon the outer or front longitudinal edge of thebrush-back at each of its ends, the side edges of the brackets beingusually in the same horizontal plane with the top and bottom surfaces ofthe brushback, as shown in Fig.2. A roller 13 is journaled in the saidbrackets 12, and the surface of this roller turns about flush with theunder face of the brush-back, so that the bristles 11 extend well downbeyond said surface of the roller.

A handle B is used in connection with the used to the best advantage inapplying paper brush and its roller, and this handle is telescopic,comprising a skeleton section adapted for attachment to the brush and aninner sticksection. The skeleton section is made of stout wire bent uponitself to form a transverse downwardly-extending yoke 14., two parallelside members 15, and attaching members 16, which extend in oppositedirections from the forward ends of the side members. These diverging orfastening members 16 of the skeleton section of the handle are made tofollow the contour of the inner edge of the brush-back, and each of thediverging sections 16 of the handle preferably terminates in a spur, thespurs being driven into the back of the brush, and the said divergingmembers are further held in engagement with the back of the brush bystaples 17 or their equivalents. The stick-section of the brush may beeither solid or tubular, and said section is adapted to slide betweenthe side mem: bers 15 of the skeleton section in engagement with theconcaved or upper surface of the yoke portion 14 of said skeletonsection, as shown in Fig. 2.

Guides 18 are attached to the stick-section, through which the sidemembers of the skeleton section pass. These guides are placed at desiredintervals and may be in the form of staples, as illustrated. A stop 19is located upon the under face of the stick-section of the handle, andwhen the sections of the handle are drawn out to their greatest extentthe stop 19 will engage with the outer or rear surface of the yoke 14,looking the sections together. The skeleton section of the handle mayslide in grooves in the stick-section, if desired.

In operation the paper is coated with paste in the usual or in anydesired manner and after being so coated is taken up and supported atits center by bringing the roller and working surface of thebrush-bristles in engagement with the central part of the outer face ofthe paper. In this manner the paper is carried to the ceiling or sideWall and is attached thereto in a manner to match the pattern, and by anupward and downward movement or a movement in direction of either end ofthe strip of paper the said strip will be firmly and smoothly secured inplace upon the wall or the ceiling. lVhen the device is in operation,the unattached end of the paper falls down over the roller 13. Theroller serves to guide the paper to place, while the brush fixes thepaper upon the wall or ceiling. The length of the roller 13 preferablycorresponds to the Width of Wall-paper, and said roller may be providedwith a scale if in practice it is found desirable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A device for applying wall-paper, consisting of abrush formed of a back and bristles extending from said back, a rollermounted on said back, and a telescopic handle formed of a skeletonsection having members attached to the back, parallel side membersextending from the back and connected by a yoke,and a stick-sectionhaving guides fitted around the side members of the skeleton section anda stop adapted to engage with the yoke to limit the outward movement ofthe stick-section, as set forth.

2. In a device for applying wall-paper, the combination, with a brushconsisting of a back, and a row of bunches of bristles adjacent to theouter or forward longitudinal edge

